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“A lot more votes have not been tallied and have come in today or by the postmark date,” he said. “A lot of those votes we’re feeling pretty confident will go our way. … The main push for us has been in the past two weeks.”

The council will appoint the winner’s replacement. The councilman who is not elected to replace longtime mayor Ralph Osgood will continue in his seat.

Both said the race would not adversely affect their working relationship.

“My sense of this is that this has been a very honorable and professional race between the two of us,” McClanahan said. “Pete and I, I have the utmost respect for him, and I think we will work together quite well in whatever capacity that might be.”

“We worked on public works committee together during this whole campaign. We both ran clean campaigns,” Kmet said. “I’m looking forward to working with Neil. We have gotten to know each other really well over the last few months.”

In May, McClanahan was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, but both said that rarely came up.